Dr. Saber Takfarinas

Takfarinas is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) and a Funded-Investigator in Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. 

His area of expertise is in the optimisation of Complex Software Engineering Systems such as Cloud Computing, Software Engineering and Testing, and Communication Network Systems. He designs and applies novel Artificial Intelligence techniques from Machine Learning, Operations Research, and Evolutionary Computation/Learning to improve the Performance and Trustworthiness of such systems.

Previously, he has held a lecturer position both in the School of Computing at Dublin City University (DCU) and in the School of Computer Science at Dublin City University (UCD). He has also held a Post-doctoral Researcher position at the Natural Computing Research & Applications Group at Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD.

He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2017 from UCD, Ireland. His PhD topic is Multi-objective Optimisation of Large-Scale Data Centres. He received his BSc in Computer Science and his MSc in Computer Science, track: Optimisation In Operations Research from the University of Nantes, France.